TABLE 2.

Endoscopic therapy or invasive diagnostics performed in 100 consecutive patients

Therapeutic procedure	Patients, n (%)
Invasive diagnostics (n=15)
Sphincter manometry	10 (10)
Cytology brushing or intrabiliary biopsy	5 (5)
Total	15 (15)
Endoscopic therapy (n=89)*
Biliary sphincterotomy	72 (72)
Stent insertion or removal
Plastic biliary stent insertion	25 (25)
Metal biliary stent insertion	4 (4)
Pancreatic stent insertion	16 (16)
Biliary plastic stent exchange/removal	8 (8)
Total	53 (53)
Stone therapy
Bile duct stone removal without lithotripsy	18 (18)
Mechanical lithotripsy	4 (4)
Electrohydraulic lithotripsy	1 (1)
Pancreatic stone removal	1 (1)
Total	24 (24)
Other
Pancreatic stricture dilation	3 (3)
Biliary stricture dilation	1 (1)
Cystogastrostomy	2 (2)
Ampullectomy	1 (1)
Total	7 (7)

^*The numbers in this table correspond to the patients in whom this was the primary therapy performed, but due to overlapping therapies and diagnostics, the totals do not add up to 100 patients